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My favorite glass is the 40 breeder big enough to do a lot with and small enough to get 4 during the $1 per gallon sale without too much trouble loading up for the ride home. I prefer the extra surface area if given a choice.
Favorite acrylic is the 75 gallon
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Assuming the connection is worth using, I could really use the ability to try out that connection for two boxes on a side project this winter. Is that something that will be available through the coop in the future ?
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On 9/10/2020 at 11:29 AM, Zeithelden said:
I have a tank with endlers, corys and a couple bristlenose that is just absolutely over run with ramshorn. Usually I pull them out to feed to my pea puffer tank, but I am just overwhelmed with them at the moment. Does anyone know of a good snail-eater that would live comfortably with the other fish already in the tank? It's pretty heavily planted with Val and some water wisteria. A good snail cleanup solution would be good too. I don't necessarily need to eradicate them or anything, just reduce population numbers.
Thanks in advance!
If you were looking to just keep the numbers down a bit lower i would do a trap to knock the numbers down to where you want them short term and add assassin snails to keep them under control long term. Assasins also burrow in the substrate which should be an additional bonus for soil health. I have one tank with assassin snails and one tank with a colony of dwarf chain loaches. Assassin snails control snails in their tank with some snails still existing many months later while the dwarf chain loaches have no snails in their tank and it did not take very long for them to get every snail in their bellys (maybe a week until they had got them all).
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I missed that watching the tour. Thank you. I figured there was quite a bit of learning in the group that could save me some headaches later on either in setup or models that have worked for others. That shower valve sounds interesting maybe I could calibrate that with the constant cold coming in the house.
v/r,
Matt
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My personal opinion , for my abilities and tank maintainence schedule, is a 40 breeder or larger. They are pretty messy eaters and need water changes and mechanical filtration cleanings frequently. I like the breeder tank dimensions with more space front to back to explore and less height.
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What would you improve about your water change set up? Would you use a mixing valve to control water change temperature?
I am adding a fishroom sink around November within the utility room next to the fishroom. I hope to add a thermostatic mixing valve to set my temperature. We live at 9200 feet in Colorado and our cold water comes out of the mountain at 40 degrees pretty much all year long. I use a python and added in an RV hose inline water filter (carbon / sediment filter) before the python hook. Are there models of mixing valve that allow for a controllable aquarium suitable output temperature? What would those be? Would you use one? Thanks kindly.
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Matt
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I started with 2 males and 2 females (2018) and allowed the dominant pair to establish themselves before removing the subdominant pair. Anyone ever bred these guys i lways wanted to try them and hope tonhave success in the next 12 months or so? Set up is a 50 gallon acrylic with drift wood, leaf litter and some tannins. Aquaculture 110 and an in tank circulation pump
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Thanks. Glad I took the hint in the live stream yesterday to use this amazing resource that is CARE. Single these guys are amazing group they are also amazing. I wouldnt do the hairy puffer group without the ability to seperate them if necessary. They have different personalities and I likely just got the right mix for these first 18 months together; no guarantee the dynamic doesnt change at some point so I have the ability to separate them into a pair or three individuals immediately if needed. They are a pretty amazing short list species to me also.
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Look like Cory eggs to me especiallywith that laying in sets of two like they seem to be. I had my group of 6 pandas breed in my 55 with enough plants and good food it will get as successful as you want it to. Ended up with 180 pandas before I sold them off. When it rains it pours I guess. It was awesome to have giant cory schools in the other tanks and find them homes to support the rest of the fish eventually. Any update since the initial post?
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best day ever on that purchase! Congrats. I use solient green on my shrimp also. Fairly new to plecos but i would say some sort of driftwood for them to chew on to go with repashy, green beans and zucchini. I have never had bristlenose but have had other pleco species both wood eaters and meat eater species. I believe the wood is necessary for many plecos to have good digestive tract health.
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This was a very helpful thread thanks much for posting it. Would you suggest something like a terra cotta pipe for a Fahaka cave?
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Thanks kindly. Its fairly sparse pending the next coop plant shipment for the ends. I may also try some opaque acrylic on top of the cover and a wrap on he back and left side to further minimize the shadows. The behavior is new and took a month or so to develop. It could be seasonal sun movement up here in the mountains. Always looking to improve the habitat. Thanks again
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I personally like the aquaclear HOBs for hot-rodding ability for my needsand simple of operation ( few parts easily replaceable and I can see through the box into the basket). I run two of the 110s, 50s and 70s with no trouble in 3 years.Not very long but they work great for me. I mostly run them with the intake sponges from the coop, the sponge brick from aquaclear, and cut filter pad sheets from the coop bottom of the basket is the course pads leading up to the polishing fine pads at the top (depending on which i want for that particular tank) sponges and course pads for biological and polyfill mostly for the mechanical. As needed I will also add in the poly-bio marine poly filter pad from either toward the top of the media basket or bend it around the intake tube in that part of the box if I need that type of removal of meds or general badness.
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4" nile puffer in 75G
tank gets natural light she, we have decided she is a she, has recently started to spook occasionally maybe once or twice a week and slams the HOB aquaclear 110 the top etc before stopping and hiding for the rest of the day. feed her cherry shrimp, MTS, ramshorn, krill with vitachem, parameters all standard.
would you put pogostemon etc on the ends to define that and the dither fish to chill her out a bit more ?
any idea if that is normal for the nile puffers? not really an issue with the unique personalities of the hairy puffer colony members
thanks
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Ive been keeping fish since I was 5 in Boston with my dad. Took a break from 9/11/01 until 2014 or so while serving in Army and starting a DHS career post service.
down to 3 50 gallons and 1 75gallon tend to skew to puffers these days.
50g : variatus platy colony, dwarf chain loaches (12), LDA01 (5), heavy plants, Cherry Shrimp (skittles)
50g: Crenichila Regani pair
50g: 3 hairy puffers full grown (18 month old colony)
75g: nile puffer 4" very chill so far, dither experiment: kribs, celebes rainbow
I like working on breeding all my fish and learning from them. puffers are really fun for me looking forward to getting baby hairy puffers from the colony after seeing some breeding behavior early this year and hoping for regani babies as well at some point.
What's your dream aquarium product that doesn’t exist?
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An aquarium that is matte finish on inside of back wall to stop glare for photos and define the back of the tank out of the box.